Adam J. Blank

Personal Injury

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About Adam J. Blank

Adam is a civil litigator who practices in the areas of personal injury law and real estate-based litigation including tax appeal litigation. Additionally, a significant portion of Adam’s practice is devoted to assisting clients in land-use related matters.

He received his B.A., cum laude, in 1999 from Syracuse University and his J.D., with honors, in 2004 from the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he served as an associate editor of the Connecticut Law Review and as executive director of the Connecticut Moot Court Board. While in law school, Adam received the CALI Award for Excellence in Securities Regulation and in Judicial... Read More

He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, the American Association for Justice, the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA), the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Adam has been recognized by the New England Super Lawyers Magazine and Connecticut Super Lawyers Magazine every year since 2012 in the areas of Personal Injury and Business Litigation (a distinction awarded to no more than 2.5% of lawyers in the state.). He has been selected by Westfair Communications (the publisher of the Fairfield County Business Journal) as one of Fairfield County’s 2016 top “40 Under 40” leaders within the business community. He has been selected as a 2013 “New Leaders in the Law” by the Connecticut Law Tribune and he has also earned an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Adam has always believed in service to his community. He currently serves on the State of Connecticut Task Force to Study Fully Autonomous Vehicles and previously served on the CTLA Ad Hoc Committee to Study Fully Autonomous Vehicle as well as a working group to study Autonomous Vehicles in Stamford. He also formerly served on Norwalk’s Zoning Commission (including as its Chair) and on Norwalk’s Aquifer Protection Agency from 2007 – 2016. In addition, he previously served: as co-chair of the Litigation Section of the Fairfield County Bar Association; as co-President of his daughter’s school PTA; on the Connecticut Bar Association’s House of Delegates; on Monroe’s Board of Finance; as vice-chairman of the Monroe Democratic Town Committee; on the Fairfield County Bar Association’s Board of Directors as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the South Norwalk Community Center, Inc. and as a mentor in the Champions Mentoring Program and Family and Children’s Agency Mentoring Program.

He is the co-author of “Make the Most of FOIA” published in the March 2019 issue of TRIAL Magazine and author of “Dynamic Demand Letters” published in the December 2009 issue of TRIAL Magazine, “Five Strategies for Rule 30(b)(6) Depositions” published in the August 2007 issue of TRIAL Magazine and “Unit Owners’ Right to Wave the Flag” published in 2007 in Volume II, Issue 3 of Common Interest Association. He has published articles in the Fairfield County Business Journal on autonomous cars as well as on property tax appeals and has appeared on multiple radio interviews to discuss the intersection of tort law, land use planning and autonomous cars. He has also conducted numerous seminars for various bar associations and tax assessor’s associations on topics including discovery, deposition and pretrial practice as well as tax appeal litigation.

He recently successfully won an appeal in the Connecticut Supreme Court case of Snell v. Norwalk Yellow Cab for a client who suffered catastrophic injuries in a car crash. The case concerned the superseding cause doctrine and you can read the Supreme Court’s opinion and the concurrence.

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600 Summer St., #7, Stamford, Connecticut 06901

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